Madeleine Peyroux
Madeleine Peyroux is a jazz singer who was born in 1974 in Athens, Georgia, USA, and raised in New York City and Paris, France. She is noted for her vocal style, which is highly reminiscent of Billie Holiday. Madeleine also has qualities similar to Ella Fitzgerald. Though Peyroux may remind some listeners of Holiday, there are differences, and she has her own sense of phrasing and interpretation.
Peyroux started singing at the age of fifteen, when she discovered street musicians in the Latin Quarter in Paris. Read Full BioMadeleine Peyroux is a jazz singer who was born in 1974 in Athens, Georgia, USA, and raised in New York City and Paris, France. She is noted for her vocal style, which is highly reminiscent of Billie Holiday. Madeleine also has qualities similar to Ella Fitzgerald. Though Peyroux may remind some listeners of Holiday, there are differences, and she has her own sense of phrasing and interpretation.
Peyroux started singing at the age of fifteen, when she discovered street musicians in the Latin Quarter in Paris. She joined a group called the Riverboat Shufflers, first passing round the hat, and then singing. At sixteen she joined the The Lost Wandering Blues and Jazz Band, spending two years touring Europe performing songs by the likes of Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and others, which provided the basis for her first album, Dreamland.
Dreamland was released in 1996, and gained widespread attention. Time called it "the most exciting, involving vocal performance by a new singer this year". Dreamland, is a brilliant recording, as Peyroux's distinctive voice is not hindered by overly intricate arrangements. Most of the accompaniment on the record is light and sparse, the way it should be for a singer with such a unique voice. Peyroux soon found herself opening for Sarah McLachlan and Cesária Évora, and made appearances at jazz festivals and on the Lilith Fair tour.
In May 2002 she joined multi-instrumentalist William Galison, and together they appeared at such venues as the Bottom Line, Joe's Pub, and the Tin Angel. In 2003 the duo released a seven-song EP entitled Got You on My Mind, which they sold at shows and online. Got You on My Mind was re-released by William Galison in August 2004; the original EP was expanded by the addition of four tracks by Gallison.
Peyroux released her own sophomore effort, Careless Love, in September 2004. The album received generally positive reviews.
Her new album, Half the Perfect World, was released on September 12, 2006. She collaborated with several artists, including Jesse Harris, Walter Becker, Larry Klein (who also produced the album), and K.d. lang, with whom Peyroux duets on a cover of the Joni Mitchell song, "River".
On July 12, 2007, she was awarded Best International Jazz Artist at the BBC Jazz Awards.
Peyroux started singing at the age of fifteen, when she discovered street musicians in the Latin Quarter in Paris. Read Full BioMadeleine Peyroux is a jazz singer who was born in 1974 in Athens, Georgia, USA, and raised in New York City and Paris, France. She is noted for her vocal style, which is highly reminiscent of Billie Holiday. Madeleine also has qualities similar to Ella Fitzgerald. Though Peyroux may remind some listeners of Holiday, there are differences, and she has her own sense of phrasing and interpretation.
Peyroux started singing at the age of fifteen, when she discovered street musicians in the Latin Quarter in Paris. She joined a group called the Riverboat Shufflers, first passing round the hat, and then singing. At sixteen she joined the The Lost Wandering Blues and Jazz Band, spending two years touring Europe performing songs by the likes of Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and others, which provided the basis for her first album, Dreamland.
Dreamland was released in 1996, and gained widespread attention. Time called it "the most exciting, involving vocal performance by a new singer this year". Dreamland, is a brilliant recording, as Peyroux's distinctive voice is not hindered by overly intricate arrangements. Most of the accompaniment on the record is light and sparse, the way it should be for a singer with such a unique voice. Peyroux soon found herself opening for Sarah McLachlan and Cesária Évora, and made appearances at jazz festivals and on the Lilith Fair tour.
In May 2002 she joined multi-instrumentalist William Galison, and together they appeared at such venues as the Bottom Line, Joe's Pub, and the Tin Angel. In 2003 the duo released a seven-song EP entitled Got You on My Mind, which they sold at shows and online. Got You on My Mind was re-released by William Galison in August 2004; the original EP was expanded by the addition of four tracks by Gallison.
Peyroux released her own sophomore effort, Careless Love, in September 2004. The album received generally positive reviews.
Her new album, Half the Perfect World, was released on September 12, 2006. She collaborated with several artists, including Jesse Harris, Walter Becker, Larry Klein (who also produced the album), and K.d. lang, with whom Peyroux duets on a cover of the Joni Mitchell song, "River".
On July 12, 2007, she was awarded Best International Jazz Artist at the BBC Jazz Awards.
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Dance Me To The End Of Love
Madeleine Peyroux Lyrics
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Leonard Cohen
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marianna sakari
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Rosdelys Guadama Servigna
Bailame a tu belleza con un violin ardiente
Bailame a través del pánico hasta que esté reunido a salvo en
Levántame como una rama de olivo y sé mi paloma de regreso
Bailame hasta el final del amor
Bailame hasta el final del amor
Oh, déjame ver tu belleza cuando los testigos se hayan ido
Déjame sentirte moviéndote como lo hacen en Babilonia
Muéstrame lentamente lo que solo conozco los límites de
Bailame hasta el final del amor
Bailame hasta el final del amor
Bailame a la boda ahora, bailame una y otra vez
Bailame muy tiernamente y bailame mucho
Los dos estamos debajo de nuestro amor, los dos estamos arriba
Bailame hasta el final del amor
Bailame hasta el final del amor
Bailame con los niños que piden nacer
Bailame a través de las cortinas que nuestros besos han gastado
Levanta una tienda de refugio ahora, aunque cada hilo esté roto
Bailame hasta el final del amor
Bailame a tu belleza con un violin ardiente
Bailame a través del pánico hasta que esté reunido a salvo en
Tócame con tu mano desnuda o tócame con tu guante
Bailame hasta el final del amor
Bailame hasta el final del amor
Bailame hasta el final del amor
Denise Brutus
Billie Holiday's soul has come back in Madeleine Peyroux's velvet voice! ✿⊱╮ Such a delight!✿⊱╮
pstob223
OMG! I was just thinking exactly same thing! she sounds just like Billie!
Sean Devlin
If you don't like her, go listen Billie Holiday then. Trolling just wastes everyone's time and takes away from the deserving artist and a positive conversation. I don't rag on people's best efforts to make art. If it's not my cup of tea, I change the flavor.
Sean Devlin
@Neil Old Then you cannot feel music with soul. Peyroux is the universe giving back what we lost.
Adam 3d
she is an evolution of Billie, because she sounds better
Living my Life like its Golden
No she has copied Billie Holiday my friend. ... She sounds great in her own style too, but she definitely mimicking Billie Holiday all day!
Morris York
I like her version, I like Cohen's. Sure, some will object to her Holiday influence, but she does it so softly that you'd swear you were a pet being stroked.
Xine Crowell
“...you’d swear you were a pet being stroked”, never heard anyone describe anything like that before. Perfect! 😆
Hankster😑
Better than Cohens
Bill Sampson
No matter how many times I listen to this I get swept up into some magical time and place, Madeleine Peyroux transports me. I thank you Madeleine.